Recently I won a sample pack of raw foods from a company that I "like" on facebook. So now I have a little packet of raw cacao beans, raw cocoa butter and some raw berry powder that I have no idea how to use.

My daughter won museum passes at the farmers market last month, a family pass to The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and a pass to Emily Dickinson's house!

Oh, the coffee post reminded me that I once won an espresso machine! I was a barista at the time, and everyone in the store got one for selling the most wholebean coffee in the country that month. I forgot about it because I promptly broke the machine as soon as I got it home, before I even used it. There was this weird seal on the brew head that didn't look like it was supposed to be there, so I tried to pull it off and broke the filter. Eh, it was a cheap machine anyway. The steam wand still works pretty well for when I want to make chai, though.